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Re: Topband: Models and the real world

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Subject: Re: Topband: Models and the real world
From: Sinisa Hristov <shristov@ptt.yu>
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 10:15:47 -0500
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Tom Rauch wrote:

> IMO people are spending far too much time with models and
> not enough time actually building and measuring what they
> model. We are becoming a world of modelers where the little
> box on the desk gives us a false sense of physical reality.
> I've read more than one article by people who depend on
> models (a few by one guy who wrote and sold antenna
> software) where entirely wrong conclusions are reached or
> impossible antennas are built.
 
> It's actually kind of scary how absolute we think models are
> and how it is ruining our feel for how things really work.


I couldn't agree more with that.


73,

Sinisa  YT1NT, VE3EA

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